Vol 61 No 18 | NIGERIA Building back bigger 10th September 2020 Planning to spend over 20 billion dollars on grand projects, the Buhari government is raising tariffs and tolls as well as taking on more debt Many Nigerians are disappointed that, as President Muhammadu Buhari is a year into his second term, he has not done more to halt the scourge of corrupt trading...
Vol 59 No 15 | NIGERIAITALY Uncivil action 27th July 2018 Royal Dutch Shell and ENI claimed a minor victory on 20 July when the judge in the OPL 245 trial in Milan ruled that the natural resource lobbying...
Vol 65 No 14 | NIGERIA Tinubu’s government braces for Kenya-style protests 2nd July 2024 As anger grows over worsening living conditions and grand corruption, state security battens down the hatches The mass protests in Kenya which forced William Ruto’s government to scrap US$2.4 billion of tax hikes, albeit after 20 citizens lost their lives, have prompted calls for...
Vol 43 No 20 | NIGERIA Nigeria's rag trade 11th October 2002 On 2 October Nigeria banned imports of all textiles in a bid to revive its own ailing industry. It now depends on imports from Asia, some of them...
Vol 48 No 3 | NIGERIA What future for the reform team? 2nd February 2007 At the heart of policy-making for much of President Olusegun Obasanjo's two terms, the reform team of Nigerian technocrats is breaking up, raising doubts about the continuity of...